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necessary to prevent the balance of things from being destroyed; as thunder and lightning are required to purify a polluted atmosphere.
Godwin, in some of his writings, asks, ‘What is it that enables a thousand errors to keep their station in the world?
It is cowardice.
It is because the majority of men, who see that things are not altogether right, yet see in so frigid a way, and have so little courage to express their views.
If every man to-day would tell all the truth he knows, three years hence, there would scarcely be a falsehood of any magnitude remaining in the civilized world.’

In the summer of 1844, Friend Hopper met with a Methodist preacher from Mississippi, who came with his family to New-York, to attend a General Conference.
Being introduced as a zealous abolitionist, the conversation immediately turned upon slavery.
One of the preacher's daughters said, ‘I could'nt possibly get along without slaves, Mr. Hopper.
Why I never dressed or undressed myself, till I came to the North.
I wanted very much to bring a slave with me.’

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